MISSION OF OUR CHURCH
We as Christian people have a responsibility to serve as Jesus did.
Mahatma Gandhi once
said the following. The things that will destroy us are: politics without
principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without
character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship
without sacrifice. So true!
We hear in our
modern day - campaigns of "promise making," aim almost exclusively at
our needs and desires. What is often missing is a call to service. "And
so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what
you can do for your country." This famous quote from the 1961 inauguration
of John Kennedy.
When the only
question is, "what's in it for me?" aren't we suffering from not
developing spiritually? Jesus pointed his eager disciples toward the maturity
of the person who has developed a heart to serve. This weekend is World Mission
Sunday. We as Christian people have a responsibility to serve as Jesus did. To
heal a broken world, we as a community of faith should be assisting the mission
of the Universal Church in spreading the Gospel message, to feed each other in
God's word. Now this does not happen automatically.
Points to Pray and Ponder: Spiritual maturity means getting out of the
passive voice, being served, and into the active, serving. The call to serve,
Jesus had taught us, is a beckoning away from death - to life.